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MDedge Daily News: A call to push pause on a Medicare payment program
And are fast food swamps to blame for more type 1 diabetes?
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Federal court puts chill on Maryland drug price-gouging law
Similar price-gouging legislation has been introduced in at least 13 states this year, though none of those measures became law.
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Will patients get on board with CMS’s new health data approach?
CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, wants clinicians who still believe they can deny patients’ access to their own health records to change their...
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MDedge Daily News: Doctors say no to pot for sleep apnea
And what’s the best antithrombotic therapy after TAVI?
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Doctors call for a pause to rethink MIPS measures
“We need a time-out during which to assess and revise our approach to physician performance measurement,” according to experts on the ACP’s...
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24-hour ambulatory BP measurements strongly predict mortality
Masked hypertension identified by 24-hour monitoring carried the greatest risk of death.
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Meta-analysis: Thin struts equal better outcomes for drug-eluting stents
WASHINGTON – The thickness of struts in drug-eluting stents is inversely related to the risk of stent thrombosis.
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MDedge Daily News: Which diabetes drug boosts survival best?
And there’s new promise in early-stage lung cancer.
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VIDEO: Screening ECG patch boosts AF diagnoses ninefold
ECG patches may provide an inexpensive and noninvasive way to screen for asymptomatic atrial fibrillation in high-risk people.
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‘Fast food swamps’ linked to type 1 diabetes
Greater concentrations of fast food restaurants in an area have been linked to a higher prevalence of pediatric type 1, but not type 2, diabetes...
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Clopidogrel flunks platelet reactivity control test in TAVI
WASHINGTON – For platelet reactivity after TAVI, ticagrelor is more effective than clopidogrel.